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Invasive Plant to Avoid: Nandina

ByBWB Communications

This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Herring Run Nursery will be focusing each day on one invasive plant and a native alternative. Don’t Plant: Nandina Nandina (Nandina domestica) is such a common landscaping shrub that you might have thought it was a native plant.  Actually, Nandina was brought to North America as an ornamental…

Herring Run Nursery: Building Roots and Spreading Branches

ByBWB Communications

At Blue Water Baltimore, we take our native plants seriously. This is not only because a landscape full of native plants can help reduce polluted runoff, but also for their other benefits: cooler summers, cleaner air, and more habitat for birds, butterflies, and bees. Consequentially, we work hard to operate Herring Run Nursery as great place…